Hitzacker - German authorities said yesterday a nuclear waste shipment to a storage site in the northern town of Gorleben planned for late next month might have to be postponed because of an attack on railway tracks on its planned route.
Deutsche Bahn AG said engineers who had examined a bridge near the town of Hitzacker had found that parts of the rails were so badly damaged they would have to be replaced. German police said they suspected militant anti-nuclear protesters were behind a fire started late on Tuesday in trailers under an iron bridge near Hitzacker.